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Book Review by Gordon Graham of publishing industry directories

Book Review by Gordon Graham of publishing industry directories THE EUROPEAN BOOK WORLD, Anderson Rand, UK, £66 DIRECTORY OF BOOK PUB• LISHERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND WHOLESALERS, The Booksellers Association, UK, £40 UK & Ire• land, £45 elsewhere LITERARY MARKET PLACE, RRBowker,US,$165 INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MARKET PLACE, R R Bowker, US, $179.95 DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHING, Cassell &. The Publishers Associa• tion, UK, £45 DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHING - CONTINENTAL EUROPE, Cas• sell &. The Publishers Association, UK, £70 UK PUBLISHERS DIRECTORY, Gale Research, US, £55 EUROPEAN SPECIALIST PUB• LISHERS DIRECTORY, Gale Research, US, £90 Of all specialist forms of publishing, directories combine the highest demand for accuracy with the least literary excitement. The publisher sends out questionnaires and would like ideally to go to press only after all responses are received. But a cut• off date has to be established, for• getting about the laggards, because all information begins to obsolesce as soon as received. When the sub• ject of a directory publisher's poll is his fellow-publishers, he might well hope for an above-average response rate, but I suspect it's below-aver• age, if only because publishing own• ership and management are endemically mobile. New compa• nies are being started daily; compa• nies are continually being bought and sold; corporate managers change http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

Book Review by Gordon Graham of publishing industry directories

Logos , Volume 5 (3): 139 – Jan 1, 1994

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Brill
Copyright
© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0957-9656
eISSN
1878-4712
DOI
10.2959/logo.1994.5.3.139
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Abstract

THE EUROPEAN BOOK WORLD, Anderson Rand, UK, £66 DIRECTORY OF BOOK PUB• LISHERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND WHOLESALERS, The Booksellers Association, UK, £40 UK & Ire• land, £45 elsewhere LITERARY MARKET PLACE, RRBowker,US,$165 INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MARKET PLACE, R R Bowker, US, $179.95 DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHING, Cassell &. The Publishers Associa• tion, UK, £45 DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHING - CONTINENTAL EUROPE, Cas• sell &. The Publishers Association, UK, £70 UK PUBLISHERS DIRECTORY, Gale Research, US, £55 EUROPEAN SPECIALIST PUB• LISHERS DIRECTORY, Gale Research, US, £90 Of all specialist forms of publishing, directories combine the highest demand for accuracy with the least literary excitement. The publisher sends out questionnaires and would like ideally to go to press only after all responses are received. But a cut• off date has to be established, for• getting about the laggards, because all information begins to obsolesce as soon as received. When the sub• ject of a directory publisher's poll is his fellow-publishers, he might well hope for an above-average response rate, but I suspect it's below-aver• age, if only because publishing own• ership and management are endemically mobile. New compa• nies are being started daily; compa• nies are continually being bought and sold; corporate managers change

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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